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Oct 1, 2022
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Program: Point of View Type: Locally produced by WNUA News Aired/length: Oct. 6, 8:30 a.m. / 26 min. Host: Charles Meyerson Guests: Chicago Tribune TV critic Steve Johnson and freelance children’s TV critic Jennifer Mangan A discussion of... The new fall season—hits and misses; the need for a television anti-violence (or “V”)...
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Jan 31, 2021
01/21
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Audio of Charlie Meyerson’s presentation to 600 high school students for the annual Northern Illinois Scholastic Press Association conference at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill., April 21, 2017. Edited transcript follows. _____ If your school kills your student newspaper—or you're laid off—you can keep going. Cheap. By Charlie Meyerson Tuesday, April 25, 2017 [Headline revised July 15, 2020, to include “or you’re laid off.” Because, well, you know.] If you were asked to...
Topics: Charlie Meyerson, Charles Meyerson, Chicago Public Square, Nuzzel, Rivet
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Mar 30, 2018
03/18
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Chicago Public Square audio update. Episode 1. BETA
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Mar 21, 2020
03/20
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Garry Lee Wright talks with his old WXRT partner Charlie Meyerson about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Topics: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Charlie Meyerson, Charles Meyerson, Garry Lee Wright, Trump, WXRT
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Nov 11, 2019
11/19
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Charlie Meyerson interviews John Hodgman on WGN Radio. … in which Hodgman insists, “I am not convinced that Chicago actually exists.” 2009 photo: John Hodgman at Barnes & Noble Union Square in New York City, by David Shankbone --- Here's a rough, automated transcript of the conversation: John, are you with us now? Yes. Can you hear me? I can. Can you hear me? Fantastic. I can hear you very well. Really? As clearly as if you were on the radio. [00:00:09] Well, I am. As it turns out....
Topics: John Hodgman, WGN-AM, WGN Radio, Charlie Meyerson, Charles Meyerson
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Nov 2, 2022
11/22
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Once upon a time, WXRT-FM in Chicago granted news interns the chance to say an on-air farewell. I knew when Jim Turano signed off during Terri Hemmert’s show one morning in May 1986 that it was a segment for the ages. Hear for yourself. —Charlie Meyerson
Topics: Jim Turano, Elton Jim, Elton Jim Turano, James Turano, WXRT, WXRT-FM, Chicago radio, Charlie...
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Jun 26, 2019
06/19
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Two interviews with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry for WPGU-FM, Urbana. From 1974: An in-studio interview aired at 3 p.m. on WPGU-FM, Urbana, Nov. 7, 1974. Host: Phil Robinson, with panelists Jim Gassel, Bill Taylor and Charlie Meyerson. (Edited to remove newscasts and advertisements. Unedited version here .) From 1976: Raw audio of a phone interview with Roddenberry by Charlie Meyerson on Feb. 10, 1976, followed by the finished feature that resulted: An episode of WPGU's mini-documentary...
Topics: Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek, WPGU, Charlie Meyerson, Charles Meyerson, WPGU-FM, Phil Robinson, Jim...
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May 30, 2018
05/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 05 30 If you're running for reelection, you could do worse than to surround yourself with preschoolers whose words and faces you can share on your Instagram account: (( )) This is the Chicago Public Square Newscast, and I'm Charlie Meyerson. Mayor Emanuel demonstrated his mastery of that principle Wednesday as he visited a pre-kindergarten program at Truman College to pledge universal full-day pre-school for Chicago's four-year-olds by 2021—assuming, of course,...
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Jun 19, 2019
06/19
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WXRT-FM news reporter and anchor Michelle Damico asked Chicago Mayor Harold Washington to record introductions to WXRT newscasts. Here’s one of them. (Photo: Harold Washington Archives & Collections. Portrait by Stephen Herbert.)
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May 21, 2019
05/19
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How to get your story on the air in Chicago Do you have a story, an issue, a company or a person you’d like to bring to the attention of Chicago radio and TV newsrooms? Stand by for news you can use. The Publicity Club of Chicago, once again taking advantage of my offer to moderate for food, invited me to preside over a panel of Chicago broadcasters gathered to explain just how to get on their radar—and why you’d care about aging media like AM, FM and broadcast TV. Here’s how it...
Topics: Charlie Meyerson, Charles Meyerson, Publicity Club of Chicago, Stacey Baca, Justin Kaufmann,...
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May 1, 2018
05/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 05 01 Should police in Illinois be able to use drones to monitor—and identify the participants in—public protests? This is the Chicago Public Square Newscast, and I'm Charlie Meyerson. The ACLU is condemning a pending state law that would allow airborne police cameras to track protests—gutting a three-year-old law that now requires cops to get a judicial warrant before doing that. The ACLU says, given Chicago's long history of illegally tracking protesters and...
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Oct 1, 2022
10/22
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Program: Point of View Type: Locally produced by WNUA News Aired/length: Nov. 23, 8:30 a.m. / 7 min. Host: Charles Meyerson Guest: American Refugee Committee president Tony Kozlowski Discussion of... Kozlowski, just back from a trip to Cambodian refugee camps in Thailand, discusses the Chicago origins of the ARC and its continuing need for help in aiding those displaced by civil and other wars around the world. Program: Point of View Type: Locally produced by WNUA News Aired/length: Nov. 23,...
Topics: WNUA, Charles Meyerson, Charlie Meyerson, Jeff Moss, Sesame Street, American Museum of Natural...
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May 10, 2018
05/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 05 10 "Our city is going in the wrong direction." With those words, former Chicago Police Board chairman Lori Lightfoot has launched a campaign to unseat the guy who gave her the job, Rahm Emanuel. (( )) At least one alderman who's been critical of the mayor, Nick Sposato, tells the Sun-Times … Lightfoot's use of her work on the city's "Task Force on Police Accountability" to hammer the mayor is the "ultimate act of betrayal." This is...
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Apr 5, 2018
04/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 04 05 It's a banner year for women running for Congress. this is the Chicago Public Square Newscast, and I'm Charlie Meyerson. The AP says, with filing deadlines still ahead in more than half the states, the number of women in the hunt for seats in the House has set a record—and most of them are Democrats who have Donald Trump and his supporters in their sights. U.S. EPA Director Scott Pruitt is even further into hot—or maybe dirty—water over ethics scandals...
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Jul 1, 2019
07/19
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Charlie Meyerson's first newscast on WXRT-FM, Chicago, July 13, 1979. Introduced by Terri Hemmert, with reports by Neil Parker and Marj Halperin.
Topics: WXRT, WXRT-FM, Charlie Meyerson, Terri Hemmert, Charles Meyerson, Neil Parker, Marj Halperin
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Jun 25, 2019
06/19
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Presented for historical context only: A college radio morning show aircheck from 1977. It wasn’t supposed to be my final show on WPGU-FM, Urbana. I was supposed to have returned to the University of Illinois campus to spend the summer working on a master’s degree. But my dad’s health took a turn for the worse (before getting better), so I instead spent the summer looking for work and failed to make it back that summer, except to empty my apartment. So this “so long for now” show...
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Dec 29, 2017
12/17
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A documentary on the University of Illinois living-learning project, Unit One at Allen Hall; aired 5:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 15, 1974, as part of the "In Depth" series WPGU-FM, Urbana, Ill.
Topics: Unit One, CRUEL, Paul Hoover, Paula Treichler, Bruce Kite, Charles Meyerson, Charlie Meyerson,...
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Dec 16, 2021
12/21
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A report for the WPGU-FM, Urbana, series Probe from March 29, 1976: The death of “Super CFL”—rock station WCFL-AM’s transition to an “easy listening” music outlet. Reported by then-college student Charles Meyerson
Topics: WCFL, WPGU, WPGU-FM, WCFL-AM, Charles Meyerson, Charlie Meyerson, Larry Lujack, Fred Winston,...
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Jun 28, 2019
06/19
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After organized crime figure Allen Dorfman was murdered outside a Lincolnwood, Ill., hotel , I was dispatched to the scene. Here’s the report I filed for WXRT-FM, Chicago. — Charlie Meyerson
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Jun 7, 2018
06/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 06 07 Another oops from facebook. I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. The company is notifying about 14 million users that it made a mistake—inadvertently setting their posts to go Public—even if their previous preferences had been set to more private exposure. It says the technical error affected posts between May 18th and 27th—and it's reverting any posts made by the people affected to the privacy level of their previous post. So...
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Apr 24, 2018
04/18
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As McDonald's moves its headquarters into the heart of Chicago, Chicago is getting something unique. This is the Chicago Public Square Newscast, and I'm Charlie Meyerson Its new Fulton Market building—still under construction—will feature a ground-floor restaurant, open this week—serving a rotating menu of items on the menus of McDonald'ses around the world. F'rinstance: Cheese & Bacon Loaded Fries from Australia and the McSpicy Chicken Sandwich from Hong Kong. What it won't have: A...
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Jul 10, 2018
07/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 07 10 Battle lines being drawn … over President Trump's pick for the U.S. Supreme Court. I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. Within hours of the president's nomination, every Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee came out in opposition to Brett Kavanaugh. And Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal said survivors of the Florida high school shooting should be particularly alarmed: (( )) But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,...
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Jun 19, 2018
06/18
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[Photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, showing people taken into custody in cases of illegal entry into the U.S., held in cages at a McAllen, Texas, facility June 17, 2018.] Chicago Public Square 2018 06 19 A tearful cry in Congress. I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. (( )) That's Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, before a joint meeting of the House Judiciary and Oversight committees … pleading for an end to the separation of migrant children from...
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Nov 14, 2022
11/22
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During a visit to the studios of WNUA-FM, Chicago, in the 1990s, celebrated voice actors June Foray (Rocky the Flying Squirrel) and Bill Scott (Bullwinkle) voiced promotional messages for host Dean Richards and news director Charlie Meyerson. More from Foray and Scott here .
Topics: June Foray, Bill Scott, Charlie Meyerson, Charles Meyerson, Dean Richards, WNUA, WNUA-FM, Rocky,...
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Oct 1, 2022
10/22
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Program: Point of View Type: Locally produced by WNUA News Aired/length: Sept. 28, 8:30 a.m. / 25 min. Host: Charles Meyerson Guest: Humorist and CBS News commentator Bill Geist A discussion of... The aging process, as described in his book The Big Five-Oh!: Facing, Fearing, and Fighting 50. Geist recites his “50 ways to tell you’re 50.” (#38: Branson vacation.)
Topics: Charles Meyerson, Charlie Meyerson, Bill Geist, William Geist, CBS News, New York Times, WNUA,...
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Apr 17, 2018
04/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 04 17 If you're a Starbucks fan, mark May 29 on your calendar. I'm Charlie Meyerson and this is the Chicago Public Square Newscast. On May 29, Starbucks says it will close more than 8,000 of its company-owned stores for an afternoon to train staff in how to avoid racial bias and prevent discrimination in its stores. That's the company's latest response to an incident its CEO has called "reprehensible"—the arrest of two black men who witnesses were just...
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Mar 9, 2021
03/21
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A Nov. 1, 1991, interview with then-president of Jim Henson Productions, Brian Henson—conducted by then WNUA-FM, Chicago, news director Charlie Meyerson. Unedited audio.
Topics: Brian Henson, Muppets, Dinosaurs, Jim Henson, WNUA, WNUA-FM, Charles Meyerson, Charlie Meyerson
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Sep 5, 2019
09/19
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In 1988, I was a newbie Chicago City Hall reporter for WXRT-FM. It was an assignment I relished not—partly because the City Council’s procedures were bewilderingly opaque and byzantine. But I channeled my journalistic frustration into creation of a series that won a nationwide United Press International award for documentary radio reporting. So, let’s return to the year 1988. Eugene Sawyer was briefly Chicago’s mayor, and a young journalist was pissed off at the difficulty...
Topics: WXRT, Chicago City Council, Charles Meyerson, Charlie Meyerson, Bert Natarus, Dick Simpson, Richard...
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Sep 22, 2019
09/19
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An aircheck of The Noon Show on WGN Radio from Sept. 22, 2009. Hosted by Charlie Meyerson, with guests including Walter Jacobson, Mike Brockway and Peter Breen; and WGN colleagues John Williams, Steve Bertrand, Leslie Keiling and Garry Meier.
Topics: WGN, WGN-AM, WGN Radio, Charlie Meyerson, Charles Meyerson, Walter Jacobson, John Williams, Mike...
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May 17, 2018
05/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 05 17 President Trump clarifies things. This is the Chicago Public Square Newscast, and I'm Charlie Meyerson. The president has caught a lot of flack since Wednesday for referring to immigrants deported from the U.S. as animals. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi piled on at a news conference: (( )) But the president is now clarifying just what he meant: (( )) In fact, the president's original remark did follow a complaint from a California sheriff who said the law...
Topics: Chicago Public Square, charlie meyerson, charles meyerson, public square, radio news, chicago news,...
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Nov 13, 2022
11/22
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Charlie Meyerson on WNUA-FM, Chicago, 1996-98: 1996 airchecks: 5/7, 8/13, 8/28, 11/6* 1997-04-30 (Royko dies) 1997-05-14 Phone montage 1997-05-30 2 casts (Ameritech) AM/FM Network sampler 1998-03-18? 7:26 a.m.
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Oct 20, 2022
10/22
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Program: Point of View, on WNUA-FM, Chicago Aired/length: June 4, 1995, 8:30 a.m. / 12 min. Host: Charles Meyerson Guest: The author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories and Once Upon a More Enlightened Time , Chicagoan James Finn Garner A discussion of... His “corrections” of traditional fairy tales—er, bedtime stories—and his views on the Politically Correct movement in general. He says that while he agrees with many of the movement’s goals, its means often border on the...
Topics: James Finn Garner, Chicago, WNUA-FM, WNUA, Charles Meyerson, Charlie Meyerson, Politically Correct...
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Jun 25, 2018
06/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 06 25 (2015 photo: Daniel X. O'Neil) Planning an out-of town, post-Independence Day getaway from Chicago? Check your calendar. I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. Chicago's firebrand Father Michael Pfleger is planning to shut down the Dan Ryan Expressway the morning of July 7 with a protest march to demand more action against gun violence in Chicago. Pfleger tells the Sun-Times "Nothing else is working," so he's going back "to...
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Jul 12, 2018
07/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 07 12 A forceful and angry defense of the FBI from an agent under fire. I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. In the heat of the 2016 presidential campaign, an FBI lawyer who was having an affair with counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok (struhk) texted him her concerns about that Donald Trump could become president. Strzok's answer then—"No he won’t. We’ll stop it"—landed him in front of Congress Thursday, where he...
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Jul 13, 2018
07/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 07 13 A coward. That's what a woman is calling a Cook County Forest Preserve cop who quit rather than answer questions about his inaction when she was accosted by a racist. I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. In her first news conference since her video of harassment from a man triggered by her Puerto Rican flag T-shirt went viral, Mia Irizarry says preserve officer Patrick Conner's resignation makes her happy, but she still wants an...
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Jul 23, 2019
07/19
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Program: Point of View Type: Locally produced by WNUA News Aired/length: June 22, 1997; 8:30 a. m. / 24 min. Host: Charles Meyerson Guests: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lois Wille; freelance writer Linda Lutton A discussion of the transformation of Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood from a wasteland of abandoned railyards into a vibrant, growing new neighborhood in the shadow of Downtown—documented in Wille’s book, At Home in the Loop: How Clout and Community Built Chicago’s...
Topics: Lois Wille, Linda Lutton, Charles Meyerson, Charlie Meyerson, WNUA, Point of View, Dearborn Park,...
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Apr 11, 2018
04/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 04 11 Uh, OK, I know this morning's edition of Chicago Public Square said there'd be no newscast this afternoon, but what can I say? It's tough to quit. So here's a short one. I'm Charlie Meyerson and this is the Chicago Public Square Newscast for the evening of April 11, 2018. A historic move at the Chicago Tribune. Even as the newspaper prepares to move OUT of its historic tower, its journalists are planning to move INTO a union -- at a paper historically opposed to...
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Aug 6, 2023
08/23
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Conversion to mp3 of 1957 Decca Records LP (DL 9039). Carl Sandburg Reads the Poems of Carl Sandburg. See the images for contents. Side 2 begins at about 23:22.
Topics: Carl Sandburg, Carl Sandburg poems, poetry, Decca
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Oct 1, 2022
10/22
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Type: Locally produced by WNUA News Aired/length: March 9, 8:30 a. m. / 12 min. Host: Charles Meyerson Guest: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign communications director Carol Menaker A discussion of… The U of I’s “Cyberfest ’97”: a campuswide celebration of the fictional birth in Urbana of HAL—the computer in the book and movie of Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey....
Topics: Chess, University of Illinois, Chess for Dummies, Charlie Meyerson, Charles Meyerson, WNUA,...
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Nov 13, 2022
11/22
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Journalists Rob Warden and David Protess join host Charlie Meyerson to discuss their book A Promise of Justice: The Eighteen-Year Fight to Save Four Innocent Men. On WNUA-FM, Chicago’s Point of View. [Audio URL is malformed. It was indeed 1998.]
Topics: Rob Warden, David Protess, Charlie Meyerson, Charles Meyerson, WNUA, WNUA-FM, Chicago, A Promise of...
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Feb 19, 2021
02/21
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On Dec. 8, 2011, at the debut of the new Rush University Medical Center, I reported on technology that seemed science-fictiony then—and not so much now. ---- Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:33 PM To: fmnewschicago@gmail.com Slug: Rahm opens Rush (cm) w1 Headline: Futuristic new Chicago hospital dedicated Start: Immediately Kill: Midnight Intro: Chicago’s “hospital of the future” is ready for its close-up. Outcue: FM News (sound up and out) ((sound in and under)) Mayor Emanuel got to hang out with...
Topics: Rush University medical Center, Rahm Emanuel, Charles Meyerson, Charlie Meyerson, FM News, FM News...
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Aug 4, 2023
08/23
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On WXRT-FM, Chicago, in July 1981(?), morning host Terri Hemmert and news anchor Charlie Meyerson discuss DC Comics’ Ghosts 102 , in which a Meyerson-like character (“Charlie Mayersen” of WXRV) saves the day—in a story written by Paul Kupperberg. Also: An allusion to WXRT news director Neil Parker.
Topics: Charles Meyerson, Charlie Meyerson, WXRT, WXRT-FM, Chicago, Paul Kupperberg, DC Comics, Ghosts 102,...
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Sep 14, 2018
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An interview with documentarian Steve James, talking about his series America to Me . (Photo: Alexa Rogals, Wednesday Journal.)
Topics: Steve James, America to Me, Starz, Charlie Meyerson, Charles Meyerson, Chicago Public Square,...
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Apr 9, 2019
04/19
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Excerpts from WXRT-FM Radio News' investigation of the Chicago School Board's expense accounts—reports that prompted changes in Illinois law to require board members to submit vouchers documenting their expenses. With comments Chicago Ald. Patrick O'Connor, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, then-Rep. John Cullerton, then-Ill. School Board legal adviser Julia Dempsey and then-schools spokesman Bob Saigh, and then-school board member Raul Villalobos.
Topics: Charles Meyerson, Marj Halperin, Michael Madigan, John Cullerton, Patrick O'Connor, Julia Dempsey,...
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Apr 18, 2018
04/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 04 18 Kids under 12 will apparently be able to play tackle football in Illinois for the foreseeable future … (sound in) This is the Chicago Public Square Newscast, and I'm Charlie Meyerson, fighting a cold. Illinois lawmakers who were aiming to spare kids from traumatic head injuries by forbidding them from the sport … have pulled the proposal for now. They say they just don't have the votes to pass it. But they say they'll try again. History in Cook County:...
Topics: Chicago Public Square, charlie meyerson, charles meyerson, public square, radio news, chicago news,...
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May 21, 2018
05/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 05 21 OK, so here's the Democratic plan for November. This is the Chicago Public Square Newscast, and I'm Charlie Meyerson. After months of struggling to come up with a unified message to use against the Republicans in the midterm elections, Democratic congressional leaders say they've settled on one: "A Better Deal for Our Democracy.'' Sen. Chuck Schumer and Representative Nancy Pelosi aim to use that umbrella to cover a range of reforms targeted at tightening...
Topics: Chicago Public Square, charlie meyerson, charles meyerson, public square, radio news, chicago news,...
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Jun 29, 2018
06/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 06 29 Took him long enough. I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. President Trump—the guy who time after time has denounced journalists as "enemies of the people," the commander-in-chief who's repeatedly encouraged his fans to beat up those who criticize him, the man who smilingly passed up the chance to answer reporters' shouted questions about the massacre at an Annapolis newspaper after the news broke … yeah, that guy —...
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Jun 27, 2018
06/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 06 27 A Harvard law prof calls it "the most consequential event in American jurisprudence" in decades. I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. In a week during which the U.S. Supreme Court has handed down landmark rulings favoring conservative causes—including confirmation of the president's travel ban and a ruling that kneecaps unions representing public employees—the court is poised to turn even further to the right, with swing...
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Chicago Public Square 2018 06 21 His mocking sad-trombone sound will cost him a lucrative gig. I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. President Trump's ex-campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, has been widely criticized for his reaction to the story of a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome who crossed the U.S. border separated from her mother: (and put in a cage waah waah) Lewandowski has since clarified that he wasn't mocking the girl, he was mocking the man sharing the...
Topics: Chicago Public Square, charlie meyerson, charles meyerson, public square, radio news, chicago news,...
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Apr 26, 2018
04/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 04 26 Hey, wanna be an alderman? This is the Chicago Public Square Newscast, and I'm Charlie Meyerson. In a departure from the more typical closed-door selection process to fill Chicago aldermanic vacancies—often with a relative of the departing City Council member, Mayor Emanuel's announced a committee that will interview candidates interested in replacing Southwest Side Alderman Michael Zalewski, who's quitting June 1. Of course, this is Chicago, so the process...
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Jul 16, 2018
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Chicago Public Square 2018 07 16 A new tool against gun violence in Illinois. I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. A bill Gov. Rauner has signed into law lets police take away the guns of people judged in court to pose a threat. Illinois State Police Director Leo Schmitz says it'll be a help—especially if relatives use this new power to report "red-flag" behavior: (( )) Also new to the state: The 72-hour waiting period now applies to the purchase of all...
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Jun 13, 2018
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Chicago Public Square 2018 06 13 Uh, we're sinking. I'm Charlie Meyerson—outside, for a change—at Chicago Public Square world headquarters. A team of 80 scientists, writing in Nature, reports Antarctica's ice sheet is melting more quickly—at a rate that's tripled in the last decade. If the acceleration continues, low-lying coastal cities have less time to deal with global warming than even cynics have hoped—and nations have maybe less than a decade to cut the pollution driving climate...
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Apr 4, 2018
04/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 04 04 The YouTube shooter had a grudge. I'm Charlie Meyerson and this is the Chicago Public Square Newscast. Police say the woman who shot and wounded at least three people before killing herself at YouTube’s headquarters told relatives she “hated” the company, and she had made no secret on social media of her gripes: (( )) ■ Who she was, according to NBC News: “An extremist vegan who … claimed on her social media accounts that YouTube was...
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Nov 13, 2022
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WNUA-FM, Chicago, Point of View hosts Charles Meyerson and Jenette Kerr; City Voices hosts Stan West, Linda Lenz and Thom Clark; Sunday Summit host ReGina Hayes; Aware host Chris DeChant; and Radio Health Journal host Reed Pence review the news of 1995—including the O.J. Simpson trial; the Million Man March; Chicago’s Empowerment Zone; the Bears’ threat to leave the city; the renovation of Navy Pier; health care reform; the fight against AIDS; Chicago’s big heat wave; school reform; and...
Topics: WNUA, WNUA-FM, Point of View, Charles Meyerson, Charlie Meyerson, Jenette Kerr, Stan West, Linda...
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Apr 10, 2018
04/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 04 10 Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, says Facebook and its services screwed up, and it was his fault: (( )) I'm Charlie Meyerson and this is the Chicago Public Square Newscast for the evening of April 10, 2018. That's how Zuckerberg opened a long session before the U.S. Senate Tuesday afternoon. While he was testifying, Facebook stock closed with its best percentage gain in two years. Meanwhile, Facebook is making it easier for you to determine whether your...
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Apr 9, 2018
04/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 04 09 It's a girl. And she's historic. I'm Charlie Meyerson and this is the Chicago Public Square Newscast for April 9th, 2018. Illinois' U.S. Senator, Tammy Duckworth, has become the first sitting U.S. senator to give birth. The senator delivered her second child, Maile (MY-lee) Monday morning—and it's all the more noteworthy because Duckworth, who lost her legs and shattered her right arm six years ago while serving in Iraq, is 50 years old. And maybe even more...
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Jun 14, 2018
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Chicago Public Square 2018 06 14 (Image: Boring Co.) Chicago's in line to become a boring city. I'm Charlie Meyerson with a Chicago Public Square Newscast. That's BORING … because of the real world's Tony Stark analog, Elon Musk and his Boring COMPANY—selected by Mayor Emanuel's administration to build a high-speed underground transit system connecting downtown Chicago and O'Hare airport. Emanuel says it's an important initiative for Chicago: ((foundation)) ((all of us)) The good news for...
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May 31, 2018
05/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 05 31 The outrage arms race keeps escalating. This is the Chicago Public Square Newscast, and I'm Charlie Meyerson. Hardly has the outrage over Roseanne Barr's racist tweet died down—did it die down?—and the left now has its own sad symbol of how far we have to go to claw our way back to barely-civil political discourse. Now, it's this remark addressed to Ivanka Trump by Samantha Bee on her TBS show Wednesday night: (( )) That gave the Trump administration an...
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Apr 19, 2018
04/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 04 19 Score one for Chicago in its running battles against President Trump (( )) That's Mayor Emanuel a year-and-a-half ago explaining that he told Trump Chicago would remain a sanctuary city for immigrants—despite the president's threats of a crackdown This is the Chicago Public Square Newscast, and I'm Charlie Meyerson. A three-member panel of federal appeals court judges Thursday smacked down Trump's proposal to cut federal funding to Chicago and other local...
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Jun 12, 2018
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Chicago Public Square 2018 04 26 So … what do we get from the Trump-Kim summit? I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. Michael Kovrig, a senior advisor to the International Crisis Group tells the AP there's some value in the fact these two guys met: ((nothing in return)) Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer agrees: ((threats of war)) But Schumer says the results still come up short: ((de-nuclearization)) And even President Trump himself admits it may all come to...
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Jul 18, 2018
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Chicago Public Square 2018 07 18 Clarifying what President Trump says is a demanding job. I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. When a reporter shouted a question at Trump Wednesday, asking whether Russia is still "targeting the U.S." he could be heard answering: "Thank you very much, no." Listen carefully: (( )) That sent reporters scrambling for clarification, and Trump's White House team scrambling to clarify. Here's his press secretary, Sarah...
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Dec 7, 2018
12/18
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Excerpts from live audio coverage of the sentencing of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich as heard on the late FM News Chicago radio station (WIQI 101.1 FM). This coverage won FM News the Illinois Broadcasters Association Silver Dome Award for best live coverage of an event.
Topic: FM News Chicago, Rob Hart, Jeff McKinney, Monica DeSantis, Charlie Meyerson, Charles Meyerson,...
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May 25, 2018
05/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 05 25 Over the objections of one of the more raucous crowds in recent Chicago City Council history … ((chanting)) … the Council's approved a plan for a $95 million police and fire academy in West Garfield Park. This is the Chicago Public Square Newscast, and I'm Charlie Meyerson. The vote followed close to 90 minutes of impassioned public testimony on both sides, but much of it from people who said the money could be used better elsewhere … In the end, the...
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Dec 8, 2020
12/20
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Then- Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mike Royko, debriefed by WXRT-FM reporter Charlie Meyerson on the results of the Illinois primary—the evening of March 18, 1980.
Topics: Mike Royko, Royko, Charlie Meyerson, WXRT, WXRT News, Charles Meyerson, Illinois primary, 1980
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Mar 26, 2023
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One of my most embarrassing on-air moments: The time I confused the word presidency with pregnancy. ( WXRT-FM, Chicago. Nov. 11, 1982.) — Charlie Meyerson
Topics: Meyerson, Charles Meyerson, WXRT, Leonid Brezhnev, Chicago, WXRT-FM, Charlie Meyerson
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May 24, 2018
05/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 05 24 Are you a T-Mobile customer? Check your PIN. I'm Charlie Meyerson and this is Chicago Public Square. ZDNet reports a bug in the T-Mobile website let anyone access the personal account details of any customer with just a cell phone number. T-Mobile, currently in a merger deal with Sprint, says it fixed the problem in April—but until that point anyone with your phone number could have used it to get your full name, address, billing account number, and your...
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Jun 5, 2018
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Chicago Public Square 2018 06 05 Mayor Emanuel says he's sorry. I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. The mayor's apologizing to Chicago Public School students who've been sexually abused by teachers, coaches and staff—abuse thoroughly documented in an investigation by the Chicago Tribune. But he told the Sun-Times' Fran Spielman Tuesday the buck doesn't stop with him: (( )) But the mayor seems at a loss for ideas on fixing the system that let those abuses happen: And...
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Aug 14, 2018
08/18
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Raw audio (aircheck skim) of comedian Brad Hall stopping by the WXRT-FM morning show, with Terri Hemmert and news guy Charlie Meyerson.
Topics: WXRT, Charles Meyerson, Charlie Meyerson, Brad Hall, Riffmaster and the Rockme Foundation
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Jun 23, 2019
06/19
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An interview with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, aired at 3 p.m. on WPGU-FM, Urbana, Nov. 7, 1974. Host: Phil Robinson, with panelists Jim Gassel, Bill Taylor and Charlie Meyerson. Newscast by Maggi Pratt. Photo by Nolan Hester for The Daily Illini , Nov. 8, 1974.
Topics: Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, WPGU, WPGU-FM, Phil Robinson, Charlie Meyerson, Charles Meyerson, Jim...
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Nov 13, 2018
11/18
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Here’s Stan Lee, the man who created or co-created the core Marvel Comics universe, sitting down during C2E2 on April 21, 2017, at age 94 for what his staff said then would be his last Chicago comics convention appearance. As you’ll hear, he displayed energy and enthusiasm to betray his age. His interviewers: Paola Alejandra and Adrian F.E. (Recorded by Charles Meyerson at C2E2 Chicago, April 21, 2017. Photo: @Malcchiato on Twitter .)
Topics: Stan Lee, Marvel Comics, C2E2, Marvel, Marvel Entertainment
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Dec 28, 2017
12/17
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Interview with Marvel Comics impresario Stan Lee, broadcast on WPGU-FM, Urbana, Ill. (Photo: Alan Light; music excerpt: Rick Springfield, "Comic Cook Heroes.")
Topics: Stan Lee, WPGU, Marvel Comics, Fantastic Four, Charles Meyerson, Charlie Meyerson, Probe, Alan Light
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Feb 24, 2018
02/18
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Chicago radio veterans share 'big thoughts from little brains' On Feb. 22, 2018, at M Lounge in Chicago, journalist and funny mom Anne Johnsos read from her book, "POTTY-MOUTHED: Big Thoughts from Little Brains." She was joined by ChicagoPublicSquare.com publisher Charlie Meyerson, sharing excerpts from journals he and his wife kept while raising their three sons to adulthood. They're introduced by their friend Karen Kring, whose idea this thing was.
Topics: Potty-Mouthed, Anne Johnsos, Charlie Meyerson
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Jul 19, 2017
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More than 8 hours of programming marking the 25th anniversary of Chicago’s legendary progressive rock station, aired from Aug. 1 to Aug. 3, 1997.
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Feb 7, 2021
02/21
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An aircheck of a newscast aired Feb. 7, 2011, at 7 p.m. on WGN Radio, Chicago. Then-news director Charlie Meyerson’s first encounter with then-mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel—on a Chicago Transit Authority train platform. (At about 52 seconds into this audio.)
Topics: WGN-AM, WGN Radio, Andrea Darlas, Charles Meyerson, Charlie Meyerson, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Transit...
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Apr 2, 2018
04/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 03 30 Chicago Public Square; charlie meyerson;charles meyerson; public square; radio news;chicago news; newscast;chicago; illinois Chicago Public Square 2018 03 30 The company poised to buy Chicago's WGN-TV and Radio is defending itself against widespread concern it's ordered its journalists to read a script that echoes President Trump's condemnation of fake news—a script ridiculed in a supercut assembled by Deadspin: (( )) I'm Charlie Meyerson and this is another...
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May 3, 2018
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Chicago Public Square 2018 05 03 He knows the job is dangerous, and he took it anyway. This is the Chicago Public Square Newscast, and I'm Charlie Meyerson. United Airlines, which has had a miserable year or so of bad publicity—including a run of pet mishaps and the dragging of a man off a plane —has a new spokesman. It's Josh Earnest, President Obama's former press secretary—a guy Obama sent off from the White House with these words: (( )) United says Earnest will move his family to...
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Oct 20, 2022
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[Raw audio of interview, followed by the slightly edited program as aired …] Program: Point of View on WNUA-FM, Chicago Aired/length: Feb. 12, 1997, 8:30 a.m. / 26 min. Host: Charles Meyerson Guests: Authors Stan and Jan Berenstain A discussion of... Their new book of advice, What Your Parents Never Told You About Being a Mom or Dad. Also, discussion of their tremendous success as the author of more than a hundred children’s books and the importance of reading in child-development.
Topics: Stan and Jan Berenstain, Berenstain Bears, Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain, WNUA, WNUA-FM, Charles...
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Jan 2, 2023
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Program: Point of View, October 11, 1992 / 7 a.m. Duration: 15 minutes Host: Jenette Kerr Guest: Chicago Children’s Museum associate executive director Judy Chiss A discussion of... An exhibit at the museum designed to teach about the solid waste problem...a landfill through which kids can explore and observe the varieties of trash and rates of decomposition. Duration: 15 minutes Host: Charles Meyerson Guest: The Coalition for New Priorities co-chair Bernice Bild A discussion of... The...
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Two prank calls, origin unclear, received on a landline answering machine around 2:35 a.m. and 3:35 a.m. (machine’s timestamp was running snow).
Topics: snapping turtle, prank call, voicemail
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Jul 19, 2018
07/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 07 19 This is the last Chicago Public Square Newscast for a while. I'm Charlie Meyerson, and I created this thing. As fun as it is, it takes a lot of time to produce and so we're going to take a summer break—partly to free more bandwidth for the main Chicago Public Square daily email and other new projects and partly to check that old saying about absence making the heart grow fonder. If you'd like the newscast to return sooner rather than later, can convey your...
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Jun 11, 2018
06/18
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A critical blow to voter turnout. I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. That's the way the losing side is characterizing the Supreme Court ruling by the conservative majority … upholding Ohio's system of scraping voters from the rolls: A scheme where someone who hasn't voted for two years and who fails to return a prepaid confirmation card mailed to the address on record and then doesn't vote for four more years becomes ineligible to vote. The ACLU says the law has...
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Jun 18, 2018
06/18
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Team Trump is digging in on immigration. I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. In the face of rising opposition to the administration's separation of migrant kids from their parents, the president and his team are escalating their defense. Here's Trump, off-topic, addressing (believe it or not) the National Space Council. (( )) The president's Homeland Security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, who demonstrably has lied about the administration's policies, also doubled down...
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May 22, 2018
05/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 05 22 Amazon is watching you—with the police. This is the Chicago Public Square Newscast, and I'm Charlie Meyerson. The ACLU says Amazon's Web Services division has developed powerful new person-tracking technology that it calls Rekognition—with a K—and that it's virtually giving away to police in California, Florida and Oregon. An Amazon executive bragged about Rekognition last year this way: (( )) The ACLU says Rekognition's ability to identify and track up...
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Jun 15, 2022
06/22
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Charles Meyerson
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[Audio from the session courtesy of Charlie Meyerson of Rivet Radio in Chicago.] Hundreds of journalists filled a hotel ballroom in Orlando Saturday morning (Sept. 19, 2015) to take a closer look at coverage of the August 26th shooting deaths of a Virginia television news crew. The audience heard a first-hand account of how the station dealt with the situation in the hours and days following the incident from WDBJ-TV news director Kelly Zuber. Leading the conversation was CNN's Brian Stelter....
Topics: WDBJ, Kelly Zuber, Mark Luckie, Scott Libin, Charles Meyerson, Charlie Meyerson, Rivet, Rivet360,...
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May 23, 2018
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Chicago Public Square 2018 05 23 The NFL has a solution to its national anthem problem This is the Chicago Public Square Newscast, and I'm Charlie Meyerson. After months of wrestling with how to handle players taking a knee or otherwise registering protests during the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner, NFL owners have approved a new policy: Players on the field need to stand during the playing of the anthem. But Commissioner Roger Goodell says players can register their opposition another...
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Jun 6, 2018
06/18
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Illinois Democrats' #MeToo problems just don't quit. I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. The latest hit to Speaker Madigan's Democratic leadership is the resignation of his chief of staff, Tim Mapes—who's also the House clerk and the Illinois Democratic Party's executive director—just a few hours after MeToo complaints made publicly by an account technician in Madigan's office, Sherri Garrett, who—as heard in this Sun-Times audio—says she has (()) Garrett...
Topics: Chicago Public Square, charlie meyerson, charles meyerson, public square, radio news, chicago news,...
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Jun 26, 2019
06/19
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On a Wednesday morning months after leaving the University of Illinois campus, harrowed fictional college student Flush Bizbo called in to WPGU-FM's morning show from Norman, Oklahoma, for what became a surprise reunion with his old roommate, Rex Jensen. (Stew Oleson as Flush and Michael Pappademos as Rex, with Charlie Meyerson and John Paul in the studio.)
Topics: Flush Bizbo, WPGU-FM, University of Illinois, Rex Jensen, Stew Oleson, Michael Pappademos, John...
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Jan 3, 2021
01/21
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As broadcast on student radio station WPGU-FM, a news update clued returning students in on progress in the case of the so-called “Enema Bandit,” (then a suspect, since convicted) Michael H. Kenyon. Filed by reporter Charles (Charlie) Meyerson.
Topics: Enema Bandit, Charles Meyerson, Charlie Meyerson, WPGU, WPGU-FM, University of Illinois, Urbana,...
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Apr 3, 2023
04/23
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Raw audio of an interview with First Comics’ founding editor, Mike Gold. Conducted by Charlie Meyerson for WXRT-FM, Chicago, on July 15, 1982.
Topics: First Comics, Mike Gold, Charlie Meyerson, WXRT, Chicago, WXRT-FM, Charles Meyerson
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Sep 17, 2018
09/18
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Y’know those editorials newspapers run? How do you get one of those for your cause? Charlie Meyerson moderates a Publicity Club of Chicago panel of influential Chicago journalists: Sun-Times editorial page editor Tom McNamee, Chicago Tribune editorial board member Michael Lev, and Daily Herald editor John Lampinen. Sept. 12, 2018. (Photo: Matt Smith.)
Topics: Chicago, editorial boards, Publicity Club of Chicago, Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald,...
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May 27, 2022
05/22
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Comic book writers Peter David and Chris Claremont and Classics International Entertainment (Moondog’s Comics) President Gary Colabuono join host Charlie Meyerson to assess the state of the comic book business during a traumatic time for the industry. This is raw and unedited audio of a discussion that was recorded June 30, 1995, but that aired on WNUA-FM, slightly edited for length, July 2—the last day of the 20th annual Chicago Comicon.
Topics: Peter David, Chris Claremont, Gary Colabuono, Charlie Meyerson, Charles Meyerson, WNUA-FM, Moondog,...
Chicago Public Square 2018 07 09 For people who like public transportation in Chicago, good news and bad news. I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. (( )) With a digitized video and a soundtrack to boot, the CTA has unveiled concept drawings for a train station that'll close one of the biggest gaps in its L network: The Damen station on the Green Line, scheduled to open in 2020. It'll go between the existing California and Ashland stops, shortening the walk from the...
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Dec 5, 2022
12/22
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Metrospecs (for WAUR-FM, Aurora, Illinois) on April 20, 1979 --- [20 april 1979] File this one in your Things To Do This Summer Department. A visit to historic Oak Park. This is Metrospecs on WAUR. Oak Park is more than just a western suburb of Chicago. It's a city [village] with a history all its own and, beginning May 9th, a visitor information center to match. That's when the 1200-square foot center opens for seven-days-a week, nine-months-a-year business, giving guidebooks, maps and a...
Topics: Oak Park, Frank Lloyd Wright, WAUR, Metrospecs, Meyerson, Charlie Meyerson, Charles Meyerson
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Apr 30, 2018
04/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 04 30 For President Trump, a Stormy Monday. This is the Chicago Public Square Newscast, and I'm Charlie Meyerson. The porn actor whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford but who’s known better as Stormy Daniels is upping the ante in her legal fight against President Trump. She’s filed a second lawsuit against him, complaining of defamation in his tweet last month accusing her of a “con job” for circulating a sketch of a man she says threatened her in 20-11 to...
Topics: Chicago Public Square, charlie meyerson, charles meyerson, public square, radio news, chicago news,...
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Oct 1, 2022
10/22
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Charles Meyerson
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Program: Point of View Type: Locally produced by WNUA News Aired/length: June 15, 8:30 a. m. / 16 min. Host: Charles Meyerson Guests: Network for Organizations in Action founder Bruce Graham; 13-year-old comics creator Dionte Creagh; Dennis Moore, father of a boy lured away from gangs, in part by Graham’s program.. A discussion of... GAGMAD: The Gang Against Guns, Murder and Drugs. Graham, Creagh and Moore explain the inspiration behind and the effect of a program designed to take kids off...
Topics: Charles Meyerson, Charlie Meyerson, WNUA, WNUA-FM, Network for Organizations in Action, Bruce...
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Chicago Public Square 2018 06 22 Once upon a time, the story goes, he said to her: "F__k you." Now it's a different tune. I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. Mayor Emanuel has never denied Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis' account of their heated conversation in 2011 about his plan to extend Chicago's school day. But now that Lewis has submitted her retirement papers, two years after beginning a battle with brain cancer and eight years after...
Topics: Chicago Public Square, Charlie Meyerson, Charles Meyerson, public square, radio news, Chicago news,...
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Jun 26, 2018
06/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 06 26 It's not discrimination, and it's not overreaching. I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. The Supreme Court has handed President Trump his first substantive legal victory on immigration policy. It says his ban on travel from mostly Muslim countries isn't unfair to Muslims and doesn't exceed his authority. The president says it's a victory in the fight against "terrorism." But outside the Supreme Court the executive director...
Topics: Chicago Public Square, Charlie Meyerson, Charles Meyerson, public square, radio news, Chicago news,...
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May 14, 2018
05/18
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Charles Meyerson
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Chicago Public Square 2018 05 14 Illinois' death penalty may come back from the dead. This is the Chicago Public Square Newscast, and I'm Charlie Meyerson. Governor Bruce Rauner wants to reinstate the death penalty—suspended 18 years ago and outlawed altogether seven years ago. But he wants it back only in cases where there's no doubt who's guilty: (( )) Rauner's policy change comes in the form of an amendatory veto of a bill originally designed to expand the waiting period to buy an...
Topics: Chicago Public Square, charlie meyerson, charles meyerson, public square, radio news, chicago news,...
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07/18
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Chicago Public Square 2018 07 17 Remember that time when President Trump, you know, said he didn't see evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 elections? You know, that time Monday, with President Vladimir Putin? " " I'm Charlie Meyerson with your Chicago Public Square Newscast. In a move rare for a president who describes himself as a "stable genius" and rarely takes anything back, the president takes it back. (( )) The president's walkback followed by just minutes a...
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Chicago Public Square 2018 04 06 Something a little different for this outing of the Chicago Public Square Newscast. I'm Charlie Meyerson. In honor of the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, or C2E2,this weekend and courtesy of my teammates at Rivet Smart Audio, we're resurrecting a quiz we conducted at another con in Chicago, back in 2014. The questions are timeless, and you can play along as you listen if you go to quiz.chicagopublicsquare.com. That's the way it sounded on the floor of...
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